Adam Levine Asks Fox News To Stop Playing His Music

Adam Levine Asks Fox News to Stop Playing Music: Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine, who is riding high thanks to the band’s latest hit track “Moves Like Jagger,” took to Twitter to tell Fox News to stop playing the group’s songs. “Dear Fox News, don’t play our music on your evil f—ing channel ever again. Thank you,” the singer wrote. A representative for Fox News didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Back in August on Twitter, Levine blasted the MTV Video Music Awards and then later added a follow-up tweet reading: “i may be a pop singer. but every once in a while the angsty teenager in me just blurts out some raw honesty. it’s a reflex.” Levine is a coach on the NBC show “The Voice.” UPDATE: In response, a bunch of on-air folks at Fox made fun of Levine and his music. The Wall Street Journal, like Fox News, is owned by News Corp.

Bon Jovi Opens Pay What You Can Restaurant: The Jon Bon Jovi Foundation has opened up a pay-what-you-can restaurant called The Soul Kitchen to deliver healthy, gourmet meals to low-income folks in Red Bank, N.J. The organization, founded by singer Jon Bon Jovi, staged a grand opening of the restaurant this week. “With the economic downturn, one of the things I noticed was that disposable income was one of the first things that went,” Bon Jovi told The Associated Press. “Dining out, the family going out to a restaurant, mom not having to cook, dad not having to clean up — a lot of memories were made around restaurant tables.” The community restaurant is fighting against the stigma of soup kitchens with menus that include no price (Bon Jovi also says he doesn’t consider the place a soup kitchen). There is a minimum donation but, for those that can’t afford it, an hour of volunteer work will foot the bill. [AP]

Taylor Swift Writes 25 New Songs: Taylor Swift told The Hollywood Reporter that she has begun writing music for a new studio album. “I’ve written 25 songs so far, so it’s coming along really well. I’ve been writing a lot, and I like to take 2 years to make a record. We’re at the end of year one and I still have a year left to go to write,” Swift told THR. [THR]

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